{"id":8858,"date":"2014-06-05T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2014-06-05T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:09:58","slug":"remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moms060514\"Wow. You know how you (almost) forget how much it hurts to have a baby, once you\u00a0have\u00a0<\/em>the baby? It’s kind of like that with parenting, too. Intellectually I\u00a0know\u00a0<\/em>how much work it is to care for a house full of little ones. I\u00a0did\u00a0<\/em>it, by God’s grace, and it was a\u00a0ton\u00a0<\/em>of work.<\/p>\n

But I don’t\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>remember until a day like today, when I left the house at 6:30 a.m. to help out my daughter with her three little 5-years-old-and-under girls at a doctor appointment, and ended the day babysitting three more children 5-years-old-and-under for a few hours at my son’s house.<\/p>\n

Simple things like going to the bathroom become a challenge. How did I used to do it?<\/p>\n

Who invented teeny dolls with teeny rubbery clothes that come off a lot easier than they go back on?<\/p>\n

Every stop, if children are going in, requires unstrapping and re-strapping them in and out of car seats, and I am car seat-challenged.<\/p>\n

Words are repeated over and over and over and over…<\/p>\n

Arms get closed into car doors.<\/p>\n

Swings need pushing (I found out one can push a swing quite effectively with a foot while sitting in a lawn chair — no news I’m sure for most of you, but somehow I missed that observation when I was pushing my own children.)<\/p>\n

I’m tired. I can’t stay awake to write this post. I’ve dozed off half a dozen times.<\/p>\n

I’m going to bed, and as I brush my teeth, I will pray for you, mothers of little ones! You’re awesome, and you serve an awesome God. He will give you the grace and energy to persevere.<\/p>\n

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